Twelve of twelve hopefully have marked this date on the agenda but was marked not we warn. Today is December 12th and that means it is a day of important events. Was a 12/12 that the Russian Federation declared independence from the USSR and elsewhere, many years before, Hitler announced the extermination of Jews was already underway. Speaking of things less difficult, he was also born in a 12/12 Gillette brand. And it was a 12/12 born Frank Sinatra, but it was not a 12 December whatsoever. If Frank Sinatra were alive, would now 100 years old and this is more than reason to celebrate, starting with these pages.
Exactly 100 years, was born in a humble home in Hoboken, New Jersey, Francis Albert Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants. His father was a boxer, illiterate, his grandfather worked in a pencil factory. Nothing to do predict what they would become years later and it would be today, 17 years after his death.
In the “Time”, the journalist Jonathan Schwartz, who is now 77 years and passes in its program several hours of Sinatra every week, remember the first time I heard it, a jukebox at a New York bar in the early the 50 “I remember like it was yesterday. I gave the bartender a dollar bill and asked her ten coins. To get to hear that song, it was called ‘The Birth of the Blues’ ten times in a row. The voice was so manly, so masculine, so easy to understand, so intense, so beautiful. I’d never heard anything like it. “Schwartz had discovered The Voice, as many others would discover by then, when Sinatra’s career exploded. As an actor and as a singer.
It was just about this time in 1954 that Sinatra won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role in “From Here to Eternity” by Fred Zinnemann. After that, he signed with Capitol Records, which allowed him to release “In the Wee Small Hours,” “Songs for Swingin ‘Lovers,” “Come Fly with Me,” “Only the Lonely” and “Nice’ n ‘Easy” . He was born a star. The Voice, Blue Eyes, Frankie, call it what you will, this man needs no introduction.
To mark the date, is also published the second volume of his biography by James Kaplan, “Sinatra: The Chairman”. And there will be party, or rather, parties, many. The celebrations begin in Hoboken, for clear (in Hoboken Historical Museum has prepared an exhibition in his honor), and arrive in Lisbon too, with an evocative concert of the 100th anniversary of the American singer in CCB, led by Miguel Guedes, and programming especially in RTP2, tonight.
February 25, 1995 was the last time Frank Sinatra sang in public. For 1200 people who had been to a golf tournament in his honor, sang “The Best is Yet to Come”, a phrase that would be chosen for his epitaph. Would live only another three years. Francis Albert Sinatra died on May 14, 1998, after 82 years. The Blue Eyes were up, the voice will never die.
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